Acts 5:30 - Exposition

Hanging him for and hanged, A.V. The God of our fathers , etc. Observe how carefully Peter preserves his own brotherhood with the Jews whom he was addressing, and the continuity of the New Testament with the Old Testament as being the sequel of the acts of the same God of Israel. Raised up ; viz. from the dead; ἤγειρε , not ἀνίστη , as Acts 3:22 , Acts 3:26 . Some, however (Calvin, Bengel, etc.), take ἤγειρε , as here used, to mean "raised up" in the wider sense of ἀναστῆσαι , as in the T.R. of Acts 13:23 , where, however, the R.T. has ἤγαγε . Slew ; viz. with your own hands, as διεχειρίσασθε means. It only occurs besides in Acts 26:27 .